Ioannis Passalidis

Ioannis Pasalidis (* 1889 in Sanda near the present-day Trabzon, Ottoman Empire, † March 15, 1968 in Thessaloniki, Greek Ιωάννης Πασαλίδης, alternative name Giannis Pasalidis, alternative transcription Ioannis Passalidis ) was a left-wing Greek politician and long-time Chairman of the Greek Left Party Eniea Dimokratiki Aristera (EDA ) as well as physician.

Life

Pasalidis was born in the Ottoman Empire on the Black Sea coast in the village of Sanda in ( today's ) Region Trabzon. He studied for his degree in medicine at the University of Russia in Moscow ( or Leningrad, depending on the source ), and completed his studies in 1910. After his studies he worked as a doctor in Sukhumi.

After the Declaration of Independence of Georgia in 1918 ran Pasalidis for a mandate of the Georgian Parliament and moved as a deputy of the Georgian Social Democratic Labor Party in the Parliament of Georgia. With the loss of Georgian independence in 1921 after the Red Army he also lost his seat in parliament.

In 1922 he emigrated to Greece and settled in Thessaloniki. In 1923 he was first elected as venizelistischer ( liberal republican ) Member of Parliament for the electoral district of Thessaloniki in the Greek Parliament.

In the 1930s he became a member of the party Enosi Laikis Dimokratias (Association of People's Democracy, ELD) and was a member of the Central Committee before the Greek Socialist Party ( Elliniko Sozialistiko comma, ESK ) changed. This was based, among other parties and organizations during the occupation of Greece, 1941, the resistance organization Ellinko Apeleftherotiko Metopo (EAM ). In 1945 he was a member of the Central Committee of EAM.

In 1951 he became a member and chairman of the Left Party Eniea Dimokratiki Aristera (Greek Ενιαία Δημοκρατική Αριστερά ΕΔΑ, Union of Democratic Left EDA) and a candidate in the parliamentary elections in 1951 in the constituency of Thessaloniki for the EDA. This drew in this election with 10.57% for the first time in the Greek parliament as fourth strongest party one. Pasalidis was as a Member of Parliament Member Thessaloniki and took over the leadership of the EDA Group. At the same time was Pasalidis party chairman of the EDA. Greatest success of Pasalidis was the vote share of over 24% in the parliamentary elections in 1958, when the EDA strongest opposition force was as a result of electoral reform and the fragmentation of the parties to the political center. 1963 spoke Pasalidis with its EDA Group the new Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou confidence in Parliament from. Papandreou wished, in contrast to 1956, no further co-operation with the Left Party EDA and prompted new elections for 1964.

The party and parliamentary leader of the EDA he held until the start of the Greek military dictatorship on April 21, 1967. The EDA was banned immediately from the Colonels after their seizure of power. Pasalidis was arrested and died in 1968 in Thessaloniki.